Summary: The next time Lizzie and Catherine visit the manor, Catherine is having some fun teasing a new shy silver-haired servant.
'A new servant?' Catherine asked her brother while she gazed at Snake. He shuffled nervously.
'Yes. His name is Snake.' He answers in a raspy hoarse voice. A naturally seductive tone that Maylene had to get used to. 'Says Emily.'
Warning bells went off in Sebastian's head. Catherine sauntered over to him with a coy smile and much like she did to Undertaker, her hands began to roam his body. Not with excitement but naughtiness. Sebastian could see she wasn't interested in Snake like she was in Undertaker but she liked to play. Sebastian sighed. Fine. Let her play.
He blushed scarlet, showing off his scales. 'Such handsome, sharp features. And pretty shiny scales.' She murmured softly, a slow smile on her lips and her eyes smouldering. 'May I?' Too stunned by her brazenness and comments, he nodded.
She smirked and danced her fingertips up his neck and traced his jawline and then the lines of his face. The scales were slippery and smooth under her fingertips. Her index brushed the stray locks of his silver hair. She hummed in appreciation and he averted his eyes in nervousness. She smirked widely, showing off a bit of a pointed tooth and swiftly closed her hand over his eyes. His breath caught and she moved in quickly, letting her breath tickle his ear as she whispered. 'Pleasure to meet you. Snake.'
'Catherine, are you bothering the servants again?' Lizzie called questioningly, from the top of the stairs. Ciel had smacked his palm to his face with a grimace. He had seen too.
'Not at all, my lady.' She answered with ease.
'Yes.' Sebastian offered in contradiction. He didn't really mind. The real possibility was Undertaker and he sat on the edge of the stair railing, giggling, a bone cookie between his teeth. It seemed he didn't mind that she was so… brazen. Snake had staggered back, looking at the ground obstinately.
'You are simply hilarious, my dear.' Undertaker drawled with a small laugh. She grinned and strode up the stairs fluidly, Sebastian keeping pace with her as they went to tend to their lord and lady. But… she stopped for just a moment to bite off the end of his cookie, just brushing his lips. He gave her a flash of his eyes.
'Brother!' She yelped, feeling herself lift up and away from Undertaker. The ex-shinigami smiled wistfully as Sebastian glared at him, carrying his sister with him into the study where Ciel and Lizzie were waiting.
'Why do you do that?' Lizzie questioned chidingly, her cheeks pink.
'It's fun. Some of them freeze completely, some turn to jelly… very amusing.' Catherine said convincingly as she poured out a cup of wild berry tea for her young apprentice. Lizzie accepted it while Sebastian handed Ciel his cup of Earl Grey.
'It's not befitting the maid of a lady.' Sebastian scolded his little sister lightly. She ignored him.
'You should try it sometime.' She attempted to persuade her lady, her eyes flashing to Ciel meaningfully. Sebastian rolled his eyes as Ciel turned a brilliant shade of red and steam seemed to be emitting from Lizzie's person. 'It is a useful tool to find out information. Sebastian will tell you the same.'
Sebastian snapped his head to his sister, his brow twitching in irritation. If he was proud of his previous interrogations, he wasn't proud of it now. 'Really? How?' Lizzie asked and her question as full of innocence.
'Well…' Sebastian began hesitantly. Ciel gave him a killer look and turned softer eyes on his fiancée.
'That's not an answer you'd want to hear… where's Catherine?' Ciel blurted out suddenly, realising she was no longer in the room.
'She's bullying Snake in the garden.' Sebastian said with a sharp sigh, clearly indicating his annoyance. Lizzie leaned up to try taking a peek out the window but Sebastian drew them swiftly, standing in her line of sight. 'It's not something… young girls should see. Master, if you will?' He requested of Ciel.
'Go. Just… stop her from harassing my servants. I don't even care if you have to stick her with Undertaker…'
'That…' Sebastian cut him off with a hard look. 'Will not ever be necessary.' Sebastian opened the window and called out to his sister It was raining. 'Catherine, play time has ended.'
'Already? He was just telling me about how he came from a circus.' She said smugly, turning around to reveal that the lace over her bosom had been undone and the drops of so-called heaven's tears had found their way to slipping and sliding over her breasts. No wonder Snake had spilled. Talk about torture.
'Catherine, you should dress in a more presentable manner and never leave your lady's side in case she needs your assistance.' Sebastian chided but smiled easily. His sister managed to get the shyest servant in the house to spill his life's story. It was… commendable.
'Alright, Sebastian.' She said, catching his smile and jumping up to the window as if it was most ordinary feat. She swung herself into the room and when her feet touched the carpet, she was dry and her top was laced up once more. She knelt to the ground, her head bowed demurely and her hand poised over her chest in a familiar gesture. She took Lizzie's hand with the other. 'My behaviour has been most unacceptable. Please, decide on my punishment.'
Lizzie stuttered unsurely, she was used to Catherine as a demon witch, the face of a friend with power to match her cruelty to the enemy. A proud, defiant, bold being. 'I… I don't want to punish you!' Clearing her throat, she continued in a more confident voice. Ciel smiled, hiding his eye under his bangs. 'I want you to teach me the things you promised me.'
Catherine broke out into a smile. 'As my lady wishes.' She helped Lizzie to her feet and led her out the door, planning to head to the fencing room where there was a lot more space. But she paused to look at her brother. 'By the way brother, I must thank you for all these lovely silver-haired men but I think I'll take the first one. The second is to play, not to keep.'
Sebastian twitched as she departed from the room. He could almost imagine Undertaker laughing somewhere. But Sebastian knew what it really was. A powerful witch must have an equally powerful consort. Still, if that damned shinigami thinks that he doesn't know what they did, he was sorely mistaken. He definitely wasn't going to get away with it. This is Sebastian Michaelis we're talking about. No one should dare mess with his sister.
